Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawnagh East (killinny Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnagh East (killinny Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.05602, -8.88097
- SMR number
- GA122-132----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a NE-SW ridge in an area of grassland and tillage. Marked on the 1838 and 1922 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure cut by a NE-SW running field boundary at NE and S. On inspection in June 1973 only the section to the NW of the field boundary survived of this oval rath (c. 31m NE-SW). It was defined by a low bank of earth and stone (SMR file). The current OSi aerial imagery indicates that this section of the rath still survives. It is overgrown with trees and bushes.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.